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Southern State Correctional Facility, Vermont: Vermont State police say that charged a man with a second DUI offense as he was driving himself to the Southern State Correctional Facility to serve prison time for his first. The Associated Press reports that prison officials became aware of the 42-year-old’s state...
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Fort Worth, Texas: A group of high school cheerleaders is reported to have been disciplined for giving teammates drinks laced with urine. Administrators reportedly told UPI that at least two girls Saginaw High School received in-school suspensions and that other cheerleaders received lesser punishments for distributing sodas that had...
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Camden County Jail, Georgia: Twenty-six-year-old Harry Jackson has been given 20 years to think about where his unplanned excursion from Camden County Jail to pick up 14 cigarette packs from a store window went wrong. Jackson told the court that his escape and subsequent re-entry into the prison had...
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Washington: The Qatari diplomat whose furtive smoke aboard a United Airlines flight will not be charged with any crime, thanks to his diplomatic immunity. The Qatari ambassador to the United States said that Mohammed Al-Madadi, who was traveling on official business, had made a “mistake”. The “mistake” in question...
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Springfield, Virginia:A Virgina man who was accused of indecent exposure when he decided to make a cup of coffee in the nude and was spotted by passers by has had his conviction overturned. It took a Fairfax County Circuit Court jury just 20 minutes to decide that 29-year-old Erick...
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Rikers Island, New York: A 46-year-old Brooklynite stands accused of tampering with a court order and forging a court official’s initials in a bid to get out of jail where he was held on burglary charges. According to City Investigation Department Commissioner Rose Gill Hearn, Dana Frontis had charges...
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Maricopa County, Phoenix, Arizona: A visit by Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio to the Tent City Jail in which he witnessed large numbers of overweight inmates resulted in the implementation of a program called “Pedal Vision”. Inmates will now have to ride bicycles to power their televisions. The stationary...
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Westminster, Orange County, California: A woman has been jailed for stealing someone’s identity in order to set up a line of credit to pay for $12,000 worth plastic surgery procedures. Thirty-year-old Yvonne Jean Pampellonne was sentenced to 180 days jail, three years probation and ordered to pay restitution to...
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Edwardsville, Illinois: An Alton man found himself charged with 10 counts of possessing aggravated child pornography, after he attempted to reclaim a flash drive that he had misplaced. Stanton D. Holliday is said to have implicated himself when he asked staff at the Lewis and Clark Community College Library...
